This Week in Deliciousness: A Crash-Diet Trend, Sandra Lee & More

A flatbread dish called "pissaladière," named by someone who thought he was being shown something else.

Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating...Our Words, where sometimes we'll throw rice, noodles and tofu in a pot together for dinner with no seasoning or sauce whatsoever. Anti-Flavor Stew is filling and has a nice consistency, but tastes austere and empty, a flavor profile reminiscent of the first half hour of The Wizard of Oz before it switches to Technicolor.

For the second week in a row, we started off with some really ugly, horrifying shit: in this case, a new crash-diet trend that has people hooking themselves up to medical feeding tubes. Dieting trend, or brand-new cross for the lazy masochist to nail themselves to? Honestly, is it that much more work to buy a juicer and not start getting the same ulcers and infections that invalids get? God Almighty.

Less infuriating is a look at five recent food trends that just aren't going to catch on, no matter how hard they're pushed by a small but devoted set of true believers. Too bad about pie, but at least we won't have to face down a future where the gym is filled with more methane than a cattle truck because all the gym rats have been loading up on Extreme Sports Beans. Beans, beans, like coffee to go, now slam a whole bunch and LEAN UP, BRO!

The naked mole rats forced to subsist on tunnel food will be pleased to learn that Poblano'smakes a jim-dandy all-day breakfast, doubly fortunate because tacos are really easy to eat without the use of your rapidly fading, sunlight-starved eyes.

Bummer of the Year: Beef is about to get really expensive, guys. Sad as it may be, this might actually be the best thing for us: relegating beef to a special-occasion treat, forcing us to consume healthier alternatives like chicken and turkey, and cutting down on the resources consumed by cattle. I still don't like this situation much, but maybe it's for the best. *wistful sigh*